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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. The situation is getting worse. Godard Abel | Co-Founder and CEO @ G2.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

Scale 158
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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. Every retail shop was closed by 2000. Jason : And two things, I founded EchoSign because we had SMBs and enterprise customers. The SMBs during the recession churned at a massive rate, right? We were wrong. Jason : Okay.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. Doing a product for SMB is fairly simple. Tiago Paiva: Oh yeah.

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Your Average CAC is Lying to You -- What to do Instead

Brian Balfour

We assume the other tiers all are self service and don’t require sales. Ecommerce – Vistaprint is a massive ecommerce business serving SMBs. But the SMBs range from restaurants, to small shops, to service agencies, and many other business types covering a variety of industries. Learn Growth, No Fluff. One Essay Per Post.

Scale 71
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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

No Wait, of Course That Is the Single Most Important SaaS Metric by Jason Cohen, A Smart Bear The purpose of a metric is to be a tool in service of your goals, timeline, size, circumstance, even philosophy, not as a master you are thoughtlessly obligated to obey. A $2000 ACV? These are not laws. How Much Should You Pay Yourself?

Scale 52
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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. And I think it’s especially true of SaaS companies, when you start to think about the fact that everything is a service.

Scale 173